the reality is, the city's financial health is pretty good. >> now is not the time to reduce taxes or add more dollars to social services, because what? >> well, i think we do have some social service needs. i'm looking forward to being able to address some of those out of what we think will be additional revenues. >> locking forward to the next budget. >> pay increases, police and fire? >> councilman jack evans agrees with the move that bank all of that $1.5 billion. but he says emergency responders and taxpayers will see relief sooner rather than later. >> we increased our income tax from 8.5 to 8.9. it's due to sunset. i would sunset it now. >> we should point out the number of council members, marion barry, jim graham, and others will fight this. they want some of that money because of social service needs. as a matter of fact, jim graham is home with the flu. he did say, can't we spend some of that money, 25% of the people in his ward are below the poverty line. >> we know one thing, the city cannot cry broke, at least not right now. >> the other thing, this will help them on wal